Topic

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.6.12 is now available with
updates to packages and images that fix several bugs.

This release includes a security update for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.6.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is Red Hat's cloud computing
Kubernetes application platform solution designed for on-premise or private
cloud deployments.

This advisory contains the container images for Red Hat OpenShift Container
Platform 4.6.12. See the following advisory for the RPM packages for this
release:

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0038

Space precludes documenting all of the container images in this advisory.
See the following Release Notes documentation, which will be updated
shortly for this release, for details about these changes:

https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.6/release_notes/ocp-4-6-release-notes.html

Security Fix(es):

• kubernetes: Ceph RBD adminSecrets exposed in logs when loglevel >= 4 (CVE-2020-8566)
• golang: math/big: panic during recursive division of very large numbers (CVE-2020-28362)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

You may download the oc tool and use it to inspect release image metadata as follows:

(For x86_64 architecture)

$ oc adm release info quay.io/openshift-release-dev/ocp-release:4.6.12-x86_64

The image digest is sha256:5c3618ab914eb66267b7c552a9b51c3018c3a8f8acf08ce1ff7ae4bfdd3a82bd

(For s390x architecture)

$ oc adm release info quay.io/openshift-release-dev/ocp-release:4.6.12-s390x

The image digest is sha256:9e78700d5b1b8618d67d39f12a2c163f08e537eb4cea89cd28d1aa3f4ea356bb

(For ppc64le architecture)

$ oc adm release info quay.io/openshift-release-dev/ocp-release:4.6.12-ppc64le

The image digest is sha256:290cd8207d81123ba05c2f4f6f29c99c4001e1afbbfdee94c327ceb81ab75924

All OpenShift Container Platform 4.6 users are advised to upgrade to these
updated packages and images when they are available in the appropriate
release channel. To check for available updates, use the OpenShift Console
or the CLI oc command. Instructions for upgrading a cluster are available
at
https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.6/updating/updating-cluster-between-minor.html#understanding-upgrade-channels_updating-cluster-between-minor.

Solution

For OpenShift Container Platform 4.6 see the following documentation, which
will be updated shortly for this release, for important instructions on how
to upgrade your cluster and fully apply this asynchronous errata update:

https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.6/release_notes/ocp-4-6-release-notes.html

Details on how to access this content are available at
https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.6/updating/updating-cluster-cli.html.

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.6 for RHEL 8 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power 4.6 for RHEL 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4.6 for RHEL 8 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 1810470 - [Flake] volume expansion tests occasionally flake with EBS CSI driver
• BZ - 1811341 - Subpath test pod did not start within 5 minutes
• BZ - 1814282 - Storage e2es leaving namespaces/pods around
• BZ - 1836931 - `oc explain localvolume` returns empty description
• BZ - 1842747 - Not READYTOUSE volumesnapshot instance can not be deleted
• BZ - 1843008 - Fix reconcilliation of manifests for 4.6 channel for LSO
• BZ - 1850161 - [4.6] the skipVersion should exactly match regex in art.yaml
• BZ - 1852619 - must-gather creates empty files occasionally
• BZ - 1866843 - upgrade got stuck because of FailedAttachVolume
• BZ - 1867704 - cluster-storage-operator needs to grant pod list/watch permissions to aws operator
• BZ - 1867757 - Rebase node-registrar sidebar with latest version
• BZ - 1871439 - Bump node registrar golang version
• BZ - 1871955 - Allow snapshot operator to run on masters
• BZ - 1872000 - Allow ovirt controller to run on master nodes
• BZ - 1872244 - [aws-ebs-csi-driver] build fails
• BZ - 1872290 - storage operator does not install on ovirt
• BZ - 1872500 - Update resizer sidecar in CSI operators to use timeout parameter than csiTimeout
• BZ - 1873168 - add timeout parameter to resizer for aws
• BZ - 1877084 - tune resizer to have higher timeout than 2mins
• BZ - 1879221 - [Assisted-4.6][Staging] assisted-service API does not prevent a request with another user's credentials from setting cluster installation progress
• BZ - 1881625 - replace goautoreneg library in LSO
• BZ - 1886640 - CVE-2020-8566 kubernetes: Ceph RBD adminSecrets exposed in logs when loglevel >= 4
• BZ - 1888909 - Placeholder bug for OCP 4.6.0 rpm release
• BZ - 1889416 - Installer complains about not enough vcpu for the baremetal flavor where generic bm flavor is being used
• BZ - 1889936 - Backport timecache LRU fix
• BZ - 1894244 - [Backport 4.6] IO archive contains more records of than is the limit
• BZ - 1894678 - Installer panics on invalid flavor
• BZ - 1894878 - Helm chart fails to install using developer console because of TLS certificate error
• BZ - 1895325 - [OSP] External mode cluster creation disabled for Openstack and oVirt platform
• BZ - 1895426 - unable to edit an application with a custom builder image
• BZ - 1895434 - unable to edit custom template application
• BZ - 1897337 - Mounts failing with error "Failed to start transient scope unit: Argument list too long"
• BZ - 1897635 - CVE-2020-28362 golang: math/big: panic during recursive division of very large numbers
• BZ - 1898178 - [OVN] EgressIP does not guard against node IP assignment
• BZ - 1899266 - [4.6z] Baremetal IPI with IPv6 control plane: nodes respond with duplicate packets to ICMP6 echo requests
• BZ - 1899622 - [4.6z] configure-ovs.sh doesn't configure bonding options
• BZ - 1900736 - [SR-IOV] Backport request to SR-IOV operator version 4.6 - SriovNetworkNodePolicies apply ignoring the spec.nodeSelector.
• BZ - 1900792 - Track all resource counts via telemetry
• BZ - 1901736 - additionalSecurityGroupIDs not working for master nodes
• BZ - 1903353 - Etcd container leaves grep and lsof zombie processes
• BZ - 1905947 - [Internal Mode] Object gateway (RGW) in unknown state after OCP upgrade.
• BZ - 1906428 - [release-4.6]: When using webhooks in OCP 4.5 fails to rollout latest deploymentconfig
• BZ - 1906723 - File /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/default_connection.nmconnection is incompatible with SR-IOV operator
• BZ - 1906836 - [sig-arch][Early] Managed cluster should start all core operators: monitoring: container has runAsNonRoot and image has non-numeric user (nobody)
• BZ - 1907203 - clusterresourceoverride-operator has version: 1.0.0 every build
• BZ - 1908472 - High Podready Latency due to timed out waiting for annotations
• BZ - 1908749 - [GSS] Unable to deploy OCS 4.5.2 on OCP 4.6.1, cannot `Create OCS Cluster Service`
• BZ - 1908803 - [OVN] Network Policy fails to work when project label gets overwritten
• BZ - 1908847 - [4.6.z] RHCOS 4.6 - Missing Initiatorname
• BZ - 1909062 - ARO/Azure: excessive pod memory allocation causes node lockup
• BZ - 1909248 - Intermittent packet drop from pod to pod
• BZ - 1909682 - When scaling down the status of the node is stuck on deleting
• BZ - 1909990 - oVirt provider uses depricated cluster-api project
• BZ - 1910066 - OpenShift YAML editor jumps to top every few seconds
• BZ - 1910104 - [oVirt] Node is not removed when VM has been removed from oVirt engine
• BZ - 1911790 - [Assisted-4.6] [Staging] reduce disk speed requirement for test/dev environments
• BZ - 1913103 - Placeholder bug for OCP 4.6.0 rpm release
• BZ - 1913105 - Placeholder bug for OCP 4.6.0 metadata release
• BZ - 1913263 - [4.6] Unable to schedule a pod due to Insufficient ephemeral-storage
• BZ - 1913329 - [Assisted-4.6] [Staging] Installation fails to start
• BZ - 1914988 - [4.6.z] real-time kernel in RHCOS is not synchronized
• BZ - 1915007 - Fixed by revert -- Upgrade to OCP 4.6.9 results in cluster-wide DNS and connectivity issues due to bad NetworkPolicy flows

CVEs

• CVE-2020-1971
• CVE-2020-2304
• CVE-2020-2305
• CVE-2020-2306
• CVE-2020-2307
• CVE-2020-2308
• CVE-2020-2309
• CVE-2020-2574
• CVE-2020-2752
• CVE-2020-2922
• CVE-2020-8177
• CVE-2020-8566
• CVE-2020-13249
• CVE-2020-25641
• CVE-2020-25694
• CVE-2020-25696
• CVE-2020-28362

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate